One of the earlier versions and for a three tank this one is armed with the 75 millilitre gun it also has the caliber. 50 machine gun and two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here. Gunner. If you look here, he can show you how the ball term iturret works. He has his ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the shell casings. Right here, its a prismatic periscope that sticks up through that space. Inside the periscope is a lense that has a rhetical. He uses that this is another one on this side. This is not the main gun. This one is controlled by the gunner. There is a switch to fire the machine gun. The gunners periscope comes up to the inside his gunners periscope comes up for the inside. Their field of vision is fairly limited. The critical thing for the commander was, he would have to lay the main gun on the taget side so the gunner can see it. Typically, the tank commander will announce the enga
Good morning. Im one of the volunteers here at the Army Heritage and Education Center. This is one of the most prolific tanks of the second world war. This is the m4a3 tank. Its armed with a 75mm gun. It also has the caliber. 50 machine gun and two m1919. 30 caliber machine guns. One is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here and is manned by the battle gunner. If you look here, he can show you how the ball term iturret works. He has his ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the shell casings. Right here, its a prismatic periscope that sticks up through that space. At the periscope is a lense that has a radical. He uses that this is another one on this side. This is not the main gun. This one is controlled by the gunner. There is a switch to fire the machine gun. His gutters periscope comes up to the inside his gunners periscope comes up for the inside. Their field of vision is fairly limited. The critical thing for the commander was, h
Cspanstyle with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, archival films, lectures in college kraus terms college visits. Ms and museam all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. Good morning. Im one of the volunteers here at the Army Heritage and education center. This is one of the most prolific tanks of the Second World War. M4a3 tank. Gun. Armed with a 75mm it also has the caliber. 50 m1919. 30un and two caliber machine guns. One is mounted coaxially with the main gun. The other is mounted here and is manned by the battle dinner. Gunner. If you look here, he can show works. The ball term iurret ammunition in the back and to the back to catch the bag to catch the shell casings. Its a prismatic periscope that sticks up through that space. At the periscope is a lense that has a radical. Hat this is another one on this side. This is not the main gun. This one is controlled by the gunner. There is a switch to fire the. Achine gun his gutters periscope comes up to the inside his gunners periscope
Millimeter main gun and if we move to the commanders weapon station here, its also got the caliber 50 machine gun up top where the commander is and it also has two 1930 caliber machine guns. One of those is mounted with a main gun and the other is mounted here up in the front of the tank and this one is manned by the bell gunner. He can move that up and down and show you the way the ball terrific works. Caliber machine gun protruding through this armored ball mount. You get the workings of the gun, ammunition back there to catch the shell casings as they come out. You look at the top of the hatch, right over his right shoulder, there is a periscope that goes in it, and as the name implies, is a prismatic periscope that fits through that space. Is a lens. Periscope he uses the radical to fly the machine gun. This is another machine gun. This is the other m 1919, mounted with the main gun so it elevates the turns. This one is controlled by the gunner. There is a switch to fire the machin
Any injuries . I havent heard of any injuries at this time. What can you tell us about nustar . I cant tell you a lot about nustar at this time. I dont know if theyve had significant incidents. There was a vegetation fire up interstate 80 a little west of here last summer. But i dont think it was associated with the refinerys operation. Im unaware of any other incidents in the refinery itself. Are you confident that another tank is not going to eplode . I am not confident of that. I know theyre doing a lot of what theyre doing right now to prevent that from occurring. Youre attacking that hillside pretty aggressively with water drops and so forth. Why is that . Are you concerned about it spreading to other tanks up above . It could be that. It could be that the vegetation on that side is a little bit thicker. It looks like theres more brush and trees as opposed to the grass you see on this side. They may be concerned about fire spreading to the vegetation and to the tanks at the top of